Which Excavator Attachments are essential on your site?

19th, May 2025

Hundreds of contractors around the UK rely on us for kit that performs not just every time, but also lasts and lasts… So that’s why all our equipment is designed, manufactured and delivered to be the best-in-class.

Crafted with operators in mind, our excavator attachments give site teams the optimal safety and productivity outcomes.

Housebuilders

With multiple phases of your projects, we know that you need attachments that help you move, lift and tidy with ease. Here’s what many of you tell us you need:

Excavator Pouring Bucket

Transport and pour concrete and shingle, with our funnelled shape pouring bucket. Access the places the concrete truck can’t go!

Excavator Forks

Perfect option for when you don’t have a telehandler. Our floating forks make transporting materials around site quick and easy.

Excavator Bucket Box

Don’t leave your buckets behind, take them with you! Our Bucket box is designed to stop operators from tracking back and forth to a bucket changing area.

Bonus for your Forklift or Telehandler:

Powerbrush Forklift Sweeper

Cleans, collects and suppresses dust to keep your housebuilding site tidy and compliant.

Autolock Tipping Skip

Transport waste materials around the site, plus comply with waste segregation guidelines with our multiple colour options.

Forklift Crane Arm

Simply turn your forklift or Telehandler into a mobile crane with this one attachment, for material and equipment transportation around site.

conquip excavator pouring bucket pouring concrete on a house building site

conquip excavator forks with improved visibility

Conquip Powerbrush Forklift Sweeper attachment on telehandler, Admiral Park, Tongham. Bellway Homes

autolock self tipping skip used with telehander on a building site

conquip excavator bucket box on excavator

Groundworkers

You need products that are hard-wearing and can stand the test of time. Our durable attachments are designed to work as hard as you do. Here are the best sellers that your team might need:

Excavator Compaction Wheel

Use the full force of the excavator with our Excavator Compaction Wheel. Loved by operators – to get a level and well-compacted ground surface.

Excavator Drag Skip

Prevent up to ¾ cube of material wastage per load with our flat-based skip. Keeps materials with the operator, stopping tracking back and forth.

Excavator Forks

Perfect option for when you don’t have a telehandler. Our floating forks make transporting materials around site quick and easy.

Excavator Bucket Box

Don’t leave your buckets behind, take them with you! Our Bucket box is designed to stop operators from tracking back and forth to a bucket changing area.

Excavator Pouring Bucket

Transport and pour concrete and shingle, with our funnelled shape pouring bucket. Access the places the concrete truck can’t go!

Excavator Pipe Laying Hook

Level up your truck unloading time. Designed for fast and safe handling of pipe sections when unloading truck deliveries.

Excavator Mechanical Pipe Lifter

Keep control of your pipe sections when placing them in trenches with our Excavator Mechanical Pipe Lifter, mechanical grips.

Bonus for your Forklift or Telehandler:

Autolock Tipping Skip

Transport waste materials around the site, plus comply with waste segregation guidelines with our multiple colour options.

Plant Hire

Our curated range of equipment is tailored to ensure operations in the Plant Hire sector run smoothly, efficiently and safely. Discover the essentials:

Excavator Bucket Box

No Bucket left behind… Our Bucket box is designed to stop tracking back and forth to a bucket changing area. Keeping buckets with the Operator’s at their working site.

Excavator Pipe Laying Hook

Designed for fast and safe handling of pipe sections when unloading truck deliveries. Simple addition to optimise efficiency onsite.

Excavator Forks

Perfect for when sites don’t have a telehandler. Our floating forks make transporting materials around site quick and easy.

Excavator Mechanical Pipe Lifter

Keep control of pipe sections when laying them in the trench. Our Excavator Mechanical Pipe Lifter grips down to help with the perfect pipe placement.

Bonus for your Forklift or Telehandler:

Powerbrush Forklift Sweeper

Cleans, collects and suppresses dust to keep your housebuilding site tidy and compliant.

Autolock Tipping Skip

Transport waste materials around the site, plus comply with waste segregation guidelines with our multiple colour options.

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  string(4257) "Introduction

At Conquip, we have two decades of experience in developing a wide range of best-in-class, innovative methods and equipment to improve productivity, safety, and efficiency for contractors.

When it comes to both in-house engineering and manufacturing excellence, we strive to push the boundaries of what is possible, ensuring that our customers benefit from cutting-edge solutions tailored to their specific needs.

Q: Can you introduce yourself and your role at Conquip Engineering Group?

My name is Milad Farhangnia and I lead a team of engineers - working with our Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing colleagues - to deliver new both mainstream and bespoke equipment. We create application-specific products for customers and their projects across the UK, USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Q: How does Conquip ensure its equipment maximises productivity on-site?

At Conquip, our approach to designing, developing and manufacturing equipment focuses on maximising productivity, while ensuring seamless integration into existing customer operations.

By working closely with Tier 1 and a wider group of contractors, we determine all of this to support with their workflows and project plan, reducing time and risk of additional costs.

We’re able to assess and develop equipment innovations that will then appeal and become available to the wider market – our Smart-Release BulkX, Crane Forks Cage and Concrete Skip safety attachment innovations are just a few examples.

Q: Focusing on one solution, what is the Smart-Release BulkX system?

The system is a new variant of our long-standing BulkX muck away skip range, all designed to streamline excavation and logistics processes. It features a remote-controlled, fully-electric release mechanism, allowing for the safe and efficient discharge of materials and spoil without requiring manual intervention. From 4,000L to 16,000L capacities, it provides operational flexibility for various different site requirements and configurations. Engineered for durability and ease of maintenance, the Smart-Release BulkX enhances productivity while reducing downtime, making it essential on many excavation projects.

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Q: How does the Smart-Release BulkX system improve operator safety?

It provides real safety benefits on any site in several ways:

 	The remote-controlled function eliminates the need for manual intervention, reducing the risk of accidents with a fail-safe off switch.
 	The system is designed to be operated and maintained by a competent operative, removing the reliance on specialists.
 	Being able to discharge anywhere on-site, operatives can stay far away from the discharge zone, and along with warning beacons, contractors can reduce people-plant interface challenges.
 	We provide an extensive technical user guide and on-site training, to ensure proper use and safe operation of any BulkX.

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Q: How does the Smart-Release BulkX contribute to reducing downtime and maintenance costs?

The Smart-Release BulkX system is engineered to maximise productivity first and foremost. The system is built for durability and can be used for continual excavation cycles with an additional battery. We designed the system based on a modular design concept, which means that high-wear components, such as actuators, are easy to access. Plus, batteries and parts can be quickly replaced on-site.

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For more information on our equipment development service, click here."
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Engineering Smarter Solutions: Director of Mechanical Engineering Q&A

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  string(6507) "Sustainable construction practices are more important than ever, and Conquip is at the forefront of innovation in dust, water, and waste management. In this Q&A, we speak with Andy Greener, Technical Support & Product Development Manager, to explore how our equipment helps contractors minimise environmental impact, improve efficiency, and improve sustainability goals on-site.

Introduction

Ever feel like your site could run smoother? With tight deadlines and complex tasks, every moment matters. We spoke to Andy Greener, to give you insider tips that can improve your site’s efficiency. Here’s what he had to say.

Q: Tell us about how Conquip has designed many of its equipment items to help contractors reduce waste, water and dust on-site? 

Reducing one or more of these factors on-site – by using less plant machinery, vehicles or increasing efficiency – all help improve project sustainability.

Our range contains over 130 items - and 12 have been specifically designed, engineered and manufactured to have specific sustainability benefits.

Q: Can you explain how the Concrete Washout System works?

The Concrete Washout System manages and reuses concrete wastewater from concrete trucks, skips and pumps, incorporating the capture and treatment of concrete water, and the ongoing recycling of that water to produce further concrete. It actively reduces water waste and the potential for alkaline pollution onto the ground on-site.

There’s a potential to reuse around 90% of water waste from cleaning concrete equipment.

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Q: Are there other ways to make concrete practices more sustainable?

One is our Concrete Blowout Attachment that can be fitted to concrete skips and waste skips. It minimises and reuses concrete waste material and prevents environmental contamination from excess concrete left in the lines after use.

An example 25-week concrete pour: 2m3 left in a concrete pump line.  5 pours a week.

48,000 m3 of concrete wasted over a 25-week pour. 0.147 x 48,000 = 7056KG CO2

With the Concrete Blowout Attachment, there is the Potential to save embodied carbon – kg CO2e / kg concrete – 0.147.

Q: What are common mistakes contractors make that cost time?

A common mistake is overcomplicating processes or using the wrong equipment for the job. For instance, sites often struggle with brick deliveries because they lack sufficient pallets at the delivery point. This leads to double handling of bricks which can result in a huge amount of damage and waste. A simple solution? Having more pallets onsite for deliveries! Or using tools like the Conquip Block Grab to move bricks safely and efficiently. An easy fix to save your budget and manual handling time.

Q: When it comes to handling and reducing waste, what are the options?

We have a few…

• One is the BulkX, it reduces double-handling of spoil by discharging direct-to-truck, as well as reducing machinery hours and volume of trucks on the roads, as only full trucks leave sites. This drop-bottom skip can handle volumes from 4,000L to 16,000L!

• Then there’s the Excavator Drag Skip. This simple innovation cuts down on wastage of materials and increases efficiency of trench excavation and backfilling. It reduces material wastage, specifically shingle used in drainage and reduces site deliveries and machinery needed on site, as well as CO2 emissions.



On an example project for drainage backfill of 100 residential houses. Using 800 tonnes of shingle = 50 x 16t trucks full of material. You could save up to 10% / 80 tonnes / 5 truckloads of loose materials usually wasted and reduce excavator fuel and CO2 emissions.

• We also have a bestselling Autolock Tipping Skip, which is a Forklift attachment skip that promotes waste segregation, ensuring efficient recycling and reduced landfill and incineration waste.

It can be supplied in the Institute of Civil Engineers standard colours for easier and compliant waste management.

Q: What about dust, as it’s a year-round challenge on-site?

Yes… a Forklift Powerbrush Sweeper is brilliant. It helps ensure cleaner sites, reduces water usage, and cuts down on machinery emissions.

It’s a pressurised spray system that suppresses and cuts dust pollution, reduces fuel emissions and improves road safety by not using a dedicated road sweeper.

That covers the roads into and out of the site. With site operatives, a Boot Wash is a fully bunded sump that prevents cross-contamination between site areas and contains contaminated waste.

A tap on the outlet means that waste can be contained and pumped.



Want to learn more about our products that supports Dust, Water & Waste Sustainable Management, get in touch…

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